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Your search found 391 taxa.
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Common Name:
Japanese Climbing Fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, the leaves (up to 30 m in length!) climbing into the canopy of trees in swamp forests and other wet habitats
Rare outside of Coastal Plain & north of SC
Non-native: east Asia
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Common Name:
Southern Lady Fern
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Silvery Glade Fern, Silvery Spleenwort
Look for it in moist forests, cove forests
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Autumn Fern, Japanese Red Shieldfern, Japanese Shieldfern
Look for it in suburban woodlands, especially in ravines and along creeks
Uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare elsewhere
Non-native: Japan, China & Korea
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Common Name:
Christmas Fern
Look for it in moist to dry forests & woodlands, esp slopes, ravines, and small stream bottomlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mariana Maiden Fern, Swordfern, False Maiden Fern
Look for it in disturbed areas, and to be increasingly invasive in natural habitats (esp in the southern parts of our area)
Uncommon, but increasingly invasive in natural habitats
Non-native: Asian & African tropics
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Common Name:
Sensitive Fern, Bead Fern
Look for it in marshes, swamps, wet disturbed places
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Netted Chain-fern, Net-veined Chainfern
Look for it in moist to wet, acid, organic soils, such as bogs, blackwater bottomands, pocosins
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ebony Spleenwort
Look for it in moist to dry soils of forests, woodlands, old fields, also on outcrops, esp of calcareous rocks, & in masonry crevices, at low to moderate elevations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Loblolly Pine, Old Field Pine
Look for it in forests, fields, pine plantations
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Pine, Scrub Pine, Jersey Pine
Look for it in dry forests & woodlands, esp on slopes & ridges, also common in certain areas as a weedy successional tree on nearly any kind of site
Common (rare in Coastal Plain), endemic to Central & Southern Appalachians
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Hemlock, Canada Hemlock
Look for it in a wide variety of habitats in the mountains, most typically & abundantly in moist sites in ravines or coves along streams, but likely to be found in all but the driest habitats between 300 & 1500m
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Eastern Red Cedar
Look for it in bluffs, glades, upland forests and woodlands, pastures, old fields, roadsides, and fencerows, primarily upland, occurring most abundantly on (but by no means restricted to) circumneutral soils (including shrink-swell clays) derived from mafic or calcareous rocks
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Common Cattail, Broadleaf Cattail
Look for it in fresh waters of ponds, lakes, ditches, marshes, including tidal freshwater marshes
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bunched Arrowhead
Look for it in bogs, ditches adjacent to drained bogs, wooded seepage areas
Rare, endemic to a several-county area in sw. NC & nw. SC
Native to the Carolinas
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Arrowhead, Duck Potato
Look for it in bogs, marshes, and - in the case of var. latifolia - swamps, farm ponds, ditches
Both varieties common in Mountains, var. pubescens rare in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
River Cane, Giant Cane
Look for it in bottomland and riparian forests, lower slopes and bluffs along streams, seeps, stream banks, and extending into less mesic and even dry settings on circumneutral or alkaline soils over limestone or dolomite
Common (uncommon in Carolina Piedmont, rare in Carolina Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo
Look for it in suburban woodlands
Common in GA, uncommon in Carolina Piedmont & Coastal Plain, rare Carolina Mtns
Non-native: China & Japan
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Common Name:
River Oats, Northern Sea Oats, Fish-on-a-Pole, Indian Woodoats
Look for it on riverbanks, streambanks, in bottomland forests, seepages & glades over mafic or calcareous rock, usually in nutrient-rich soils
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Weeping Lovegrass
Look for it on roadsides
Common
Non-native: southern Africa
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Common Name:
Orchard Grass
Look for it in pastures, fields, woodland edges, roadsides
Common (uncommon in NC-SC, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Rescue Grass
Look for it in disturbed areas
Common (rare in Mountains, uncommon in GA Piedmont)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Virginia Wild-rye, Common Eastern Wild-rye, Terrell Grass
Look for it in moist forests
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Elegant Hairgrass, Annual Silver Hairgrass
Look for it in fields, on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Green Needlegrass, Blackseed Needlegrass, Eastern Needlegrass, Black Oatgrass
Look for it in upland woodlands and forests, sometimes abundant or even dominant in xeric woodlands over granite or mafic rocks in the Piedmont
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bermuda Grass, Scotch Grass
Look for it in lawns, gardens, roadsides, pastures, fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Sweet Vernal Grass
Look for it in lawns, on roadsides, in disturbed areas
Common (rare in GA Mountains & Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Yellow Foxtail
Look for it in disturbed areas, lawns, fields, less commonly in natural habitats
Common
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Nodding Foxtail Grass, Giant Foxtail-grass, Chinese Foxtail
Look for it in disturbed areas
Uncommon south of VA
Non-native: China
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Common Name:
Green Foxtail, Green Bristlegrass
Look for it in fields, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Vasey Grass
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, and disturbed areas
Common
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Hairy Crabgrass, Northern Crabgrass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Common
Non-native
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Common Name:
Beaked Panicum, Beaked Panicgrass
Look for it in moist sandy woods, swamps, sloughs, roadsides, fields, waste places, often weedy
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Switchgrass, Prairie Switchgrass
Look for it in dry or wet sandy soils of pinelands, fresh and brackish marshes, tidal swamps, interdune swales and ponds, riverside scour prairies, mafic fens, calcareous fens and spring marshes, rocky river shores and bars. It is also frequently planted
Common in Coastal Plain & GA Piedmont (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Velvet Witchgrass, Velvet Panicum
Look for it in moist sandy soil of woodland openings and ditches
Common (uncommon in Mountains, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Japanese Stiltgrass, Japanese Grass, Nepalese Browntop, Nepal Grass
Look for it in disturbed areas, colonizing moist, rich soil, esp in floodplains
Common
Non-native: tropical southeast Asia
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Common Name:
Silver Plumegrass
Look for it in fields, roadsides, woodland borders (of moist to dry sites, rarely in wetlands)
Common (uncommon in Mountains & GA Coastal Plain, rare in NC Mtns)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sugarcane Plumegrass, Giant Plumegrass
Look for it in marshes, ditches (of moist to wet sites, rarey in uplands)
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Splitbeard Bluestem, Silvery Bluestem
Look for it in sandhills, dry to moist soils of woodlands and openings
Common (uncommon in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Broomsedge, Broomsedge Bluestem, Old-field Broomstraw, "Sedge Grass"
Look for it in old fields, on roadbanks, disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Bushy Bluestem, Bushy Beardgrass, Bog Broomsedge, Clustered Bluestem
Look for it in swamps, wet savannas, pine flatwoods, wet disturbed sites
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Johnsongrass
Look for it on roadsides, in fields, waste places
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Yellow Indiangrass, Prairie Indiangrass
Look for it in xeric & mesic woodlands & forests of a wide variety, powerline rights-of-way, roadbanks
Common (uncommon in Mountains south of VA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Green Arrow-arum, Tuckahoe
Look for it in marshes, bogs, beaver ponds, pocosins, other stagnant, aquatic situations
Common (rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Dayflower
Look for it in bottomlands, swamp forests, other moist to wet forests and forest edges
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Asiatic Dayflower, Common Dayflower
Look for it in gardens, bottomlands, disturbed ground
Common
Non-native: Old World
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Common Name:
Murdannia, Asian Spiderwort, Marsh Dewflower, Wart-removing Herb
Look for it on stream banks, canals, ditches, marshes, swamp forests, wet disturbed places
Common (uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains)
Non-native: Asia
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Common Name:
Soft Rush, Common Rush
Look for it in moist soil, marshes, margin of streams, ponds, lakes & swamps, low meadows
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Path Rush, Poverty Rush
Look for it in dry or moist soil along roadsides and paths, fields
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Greenbrier, Common Catbrier, Bullbrier, Horsebrier
Look for it in dry-mesic to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, swamps, pond margins, bluffs, flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides.
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Stretchberry, Fringed Greenbrier, Catbrier, Tramp's Trouble
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides (of various habitats, including wetlands)
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Whiteleaf Greenbrier, Wild Sarsaparilla, Sawbrier
Look for it in dry to mesic forests and woodlands, bottomland and riparian forests, bluffs, hardwood flatwoods, pine flatwoods, prairies, old fields, fencerows, pastures, roadsides; uncommon in wetlands
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Coral Greenbrier, Red-berried Swamp Smilax
Look for it in swamp forests, bogs, woodland seeps, often where submersed for at least part of the year
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bamboo-vine, Blaspheme-vine, Wild Bamboo, Laurel-leaf Greenbriar
Look for it in pocosins, swamp forests, wooded seeps and bogs, swamps, and other wetlands, often with groundwater influence
Common in Coastal Plain (rare Piedmont & Mtns), primarily endemic to Southeastern Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Little Sweet Betsy, Purple Toadshade
Look for it in rich soils of cove forests, moist slopes, & bottomlands, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks
Common to uncommon, locally abundant (rare in SC Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Catesby's Trillium, Rosy Wake-robin, Bashful Trillium, Rose Trillium
Look for it in bottomland forests, mesic slopes, cove forests
Common (uncommon in Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Smooth Solomon's Seal
Look for it . Depending on variety, it can be found in moist to dry forests and/or on roadbanks
Common to rare, depending on variety and region
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Garden Star of Bethlehem
Look for it in lawns, old fields, bottomlands, forests (it is commonly cultivated)
Common to uncommon, depending on province
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Starch Grape-hyacinth, Blue Bottles
Look for it . It is cultivated as an ornamental, is persistent and naturalized in lawns, old fields, suburban woodlands, and disturbed areas
Common (rare in Carolina Mountains)
Non-native: Europe
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Common Name:
Field Garlic, Wild Onion, Crow Garlic, Onion Grass
Look for it in lawns, pastures, other disturbed places
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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